Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Adam McKay

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 19h

Can’t take any columnist or writer seriously on ANYTHING if they’ve had nothing to say about Gaza

Reposted by Adam McKay

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire.

And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time.

I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.

8 130 390

Reposted by Adam McKay

Waseem elmadhoun🇵🇸 @waseemmlol.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky keeps deleting my account, but I won’t stop trying to make our voices heard.
I’m Waseem from Gaza — I lost my home and job in the war, and now my children and I have no shelter.
Please help us raise $600 to buy a tent to protect us from the cold 🙏
gofund.me/35fdca7d
@mommunism.bsky.social

4 75 65

Reposted by Adam McKay

Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 19h

I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 21h

The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Bari Weiss and the post-liberal media order

The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality.

therealnews.com

9 96 360

Reposted by Adam McKay

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19h

uh I guess they must've "came through" then bc ICE is currently brutalizing your citizens assisted by your police

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

8 83 760

Reposted by Adam McKay

Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 19h

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 22h

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

34 320 2.5K

Reposted by Adam McKay

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 20h

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

12 410 790

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20h

This also could become serious:

bsky.app/profile/nick...

Nick Bassill @nickpbassill.bsky.social · 20h

One important part of the possible coastal storm is that winds will be roughly from the NE. This is already a rare direction, and last winter featured basically zero nor'easters.

*If* ~45 mph NE gusts occur in Long Island, it could be 1000+ days since the last occurrence. Rare wind = more damage.

2 2 15

Reposted by Adam McKay

WIRED @wired.com · 20h

If you don't have a Prime membership or are trying to limit your Amazon shopping, you can still benefit from Prime Day deals by shopping the sales that other, NON-Amazon retailers put on to compete with APD.

We've rounded up some of the best deals. 👇

Don’t Miss These Prime Day Deals From Stores That Aren’t Amazon

Time is running out to save! You don't have to shop Amazon Big Deal Days to save on WIRED-approved favorites.

www.wired.com

13 48 150

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20h

What’s really happening is a war against non-whites and whites who don’t support that war.

1 4 46

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20h

Has there ever been an example of a country descending into a fascistic “war against the left” where the country didn’t really have a functioning left?

Because the U.S. hasn’t had a left wing with any institutional power or major media presence in decades.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

14:30 07 Oct 25 2.1M Views

5 Reposts

940 Quotes 42.2K

2,584 Bookmarks

9 40 190

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20h

What makes these “new” weather occurrences SO dangerous is in no way were places like Phoenix or Los Angeles designed to deal with hurricanes/torrential rain/tropical storms.

Eventually as that Pacific cold patch south of San Diego warms there will be Cat 5 hurricanes hitting Southern California.

2 2 31

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20h

No joke, if you’re in Arizona be weather aware.

This has a chance to be a disaster.
Remember: new climate = new risk.

A national weather service warning about extreme rain this weekend in Arizona.

3 36 180

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20h

Not only did he take the money but his quotes afterwards were a dream for the Saudi royal family.

2 3

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20h

(Oh, that question wasn’t for me. I answered anyway)

1 4

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20h

No I am not.
I couldn’t imagine he would participate and he gleefully did.
Tragic.

1 5

Reposted by Adam McKay

onion person @junlper.beer · 20h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

49 1.8K 6.8K

Reposted by Adam McKay

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

210 2.1K 5.3K

Reposted by Adam McKay

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Doaa. Doaa is the mother of 3 children Omar, 10, Yasmine, 8 and Youseff, 4 but she primarily started this fundraiser to help her sister Amal who lost a husband and son and is trying to support her children Hiam, 13, Omar, 12 and Jawad, 7.